I still think we will need to read the final report to be able to make any reliable assumptions (when we can never know absolutely what is going through someone's mind) about the mindset and actions of the accident crew. Here we just do not have access to the CVR records and FDR that show what was said and done prior to the accident.
Did someone else enter the cockpit? If so, who was it and what did they say, if anything, to the crew? For all we know they could have been told, "Look, don't take any chances here; we can just divert if you don't like the look of the weather," instead of, "You must get us in there at all costs."
Too, the captain could have been intending to just shoot one low approach to save face and then divert, rather than try at all costs to land.
We just cannot really say much about any of this now so why bother trying? This might be the reason these threads can only get to a certain point before they wither and die, having generated much more heat than light. If you are seriously interested in flight safety then you can just go off to read expertly-written crash reports. It is often very instructive to compare the reality shown much later to the speculation presented as near-fact while the wreckage is still burning, when that might be well taken as a cue to remain silent unless holding sure knowledge of some relevant facts. "Military pilots are cowboys," for instance, means all of them, and to the same degree?